The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Al Gore

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Madame de Girardin

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton, The Lacon,

We are prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

Erin Kellison

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Marshall McLuhan

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor.

Stephen Richards

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Remy de Gourmont